Forrest Sheldon

Forrest K. Sheldon was an American actor, film director and screenwriter.¹² He directed and wrote for over forty films from 1924 to 1940.³ Many of his films were westerns.

Sheldon was born in Trinidad, Colorado.⁴ He was educated in Los Angeles, California and began working at Kalem Company in 1914. He worked for various studios and worked on Ken Maynard films including Hell-Fire Austin. He also worked on Tom Keene and Buck Jones films.⁵

• False Trails (1924), actor
• Makers of Men (1925), director⁶⁷
• Never Too Late (1925), director
• No Man's Law (1925), director⁸
• The Knockout Kid (1925), writer
• The Snob Buster (1925), writer
• The Man from Oklahoma (1926), director
• The Grey Vulture (1926), director⁹
• The Haunted Ship (1927), director
• Code of the Scarlet (1928), co-writer¹⁰
• Law of the Rio Grande (1931), director
• Dynamite Ranch (1932), director
• Hell Fire Austin (1932), director
• Between Fighting Men (1932), director¹¹
• The Lone Trail (1932), director
• Hell-Fire Austin (1932)
• The Texas Ranger (1931), writer
• The Lone Rider (1930), co-wrote
• The Dawn Trail (1930), story¹¹
• Phantom Thunderbolt (1933), co-writer¹¹
• The Lone Avenger (1933), writer¹¹
• Wilderness Mail (1935), director
• Men of Action (1935), co-wrote screenplay
• Port of Hate (1939), story
• Texas Stampede (1939), co-writer